I loved Spencer Tracy. I would have done anything for him.

Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.

Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That's what I've done.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

I thought, can you think of any really good reason not to do it? Except that, oh, I'm so shy, or oh, my private life, or oh, are they going to find out how boring I am? You know? And that was the only reason now, in a sense, not to do television. Because it certainly is a method of expression, which has to be accepted as these things come along.

With all the opportunities I had, I could have done more. And if I'd done more, I could have been quite remarkable.

My father, a surgeon and urologist, studied sex professionally all his life. Before he died at 82, he told me he hadn't come to any conclusions about it at all.